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watching the movie Sybil then she made a comment a
bout me being like her . I need to confess.
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Permalink Reply by aliasihaya on
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What do you need to confess?
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That I have MD
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Permalink Reply by Pseudo Life on
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Wow there's comment for you. Sybil, the multiple personality person, - a long, long way from the daydreamer. Do not let anyone diagnose you as being like someone when they don't know what is going on in your head - or maybe they think you do.
caution, caution. Multiple personality disorder - or Dissociative Identify Disorder can be created by the therapist . Unintentionally or not.
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Can you explain a little bit? Do you mean if we see a therapist we may go through a period like this?
Pseudo Life said:Wow there's comment for you. Sybil, the multiple personality person, - a long, long way from the daydreamer. Do not let anyone diagnose you as being like someone when they don't know what is going on in your head - or maybe they think you do.
caution, caution. Multiple personality disorder - or Dissociative Identify Disorder can be created by the therapist . Unintentionally or not.
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no.
Sorry I responded so strongly. Ten to 15 years ago a very popular diagnosis was multiple personality disorder caused by repressed childhood memories. This is from Wiki:
A high percentage of patients report child abuse.[7][33] People diagnosed with DID often report that they have experienced severe physical and sexual abuse, especially during early to mid childhood.[34] Skeptics have observed that a small number of US therapists were responsible for diagnosing the majority of individuals with DID there, that patients did not report sexual abuse or manifest alters until after treatment had begun, and that the "alters" tended to be rule-governed social roles rather than separate personalities[8] which is consistent with replacing the personalities-focused MPD term with the identities-focused DID term.
What this means to me personally. I've always been a fantasizer, day dreamer. Make a suggestion, I can develop a whole story around it. However, I've always been able to distinguish reality from dreaming. Until I went to a therapist who believed in MPD. And eventually she had me believing it too. Alters (other personalities) with names. And I must have this because I must have been abused and if I worked hard enough, I would recovery my memories. If my alters were not forthcoming - or I couldn't remember enough - it was because I wasn't try hard enough and didn't I want to get better. I saw her for almost ten years, getting sicker, depressed, anxious and horribly confused. I cut off contact with my father for five years. Fortunately for me, I moved. It has taken six years to fully realize how much I had been manipulated - intentionally or not.
Therefore, when someone starts talking Sybil I want to send up all kinds of red flags. If you want to read more, I will send y o some links. I lost 7 years of my life, lost my job, saw my dad just before he died, and not sure that my siblings have really or will really forgive me. I'm not sure sometimes how to forgive myself.
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Samantha,
I'm sorry for you as well. My therapist was moving at the same time and she suddenly decided that she would leave no forwarding information. My psych who prescribing meds told me to tell people where I moved that I had depression but not to mention the MPD. I still haven't completely to terms with what happened. I have several boxes of drawings and notes that I need to burn and bid farewell to. I wish I could find my old therapist.
I now see a very, very old psychiatrist, the only one in the county. He is hard of hearing, speaks with a German accent, and is kind as could be. And he believes me when I say I'm depressed and I'm still functioning very well. I always have. Although the MPD therapy really took an emotional toll. I cry easily, I can easily trigger, don't trust, lost confidence and I can not always see political and power struggles well. That has caused me to be fired, to quit, and to hide when in conflict.
I deeply hurt my parents because they lived 3,000 miles away and I cut them off with little explanation. My therapist used to tell me how much she hated my father when ever she flew over where they lived. and questioned why I would even want to go to his funeral. After therapy, I flew back when my Dad suffered a major stroke and even then I didn't know if his smile and vacant stare had some sort of underlying evil. I thank god I went to his funeral. If I hadn't I would have lost all of my siblings. My mother lived for five more years and I visited every year.
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Permalink Reply by Wish Upon A Wish on
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I heard about someone who started seeing a therapist, and after a while he convinced her that her father, and eventually her brother had sexually abused her, and even that her fiancee's father, I think, had sexually abused them both, and it made her lose over 5 years of her life. So yeah, this stuff happens, and that and the fact that the number one complaint against psychiatrists and psychologists makes me rather want to avoid seeing one, even though I know that they're not all bad, some are actually really good.
SAMANTHA Artemis said:I'm sorry that you had to go through that, Pseudo Life. I had a similar experience when I was a teenager. I wasn't told that I had MPD but I was told that I had been abused. Personally, I think my therapist was more crazy than I was! LOL. I am wary of any mental health professionals now but I have met a couple of very good ones over the years.
Pseudo Life said:no.
Sorry I responded so strongly. Ten to 15 years ago a very popular diagnosis was multiple personality disorder caused by repressed childhood memories. This is from Wiki:
A high percentage of patients report child abuse.[7][33] People diagnosed with DID often report that they have experienced severe physical and sexual abuse, especially during early to mid childhood.[34] Skeptics have observed that a small number of US therapists were responsible for diagnosing the majority of individuals with DID there, that patients did not report sexual abuse or manifest alters until after treatment had begun, and that the "alters" tended to be rule-governed social roles rather than separate personalities[8] which is consistent with replacing the personalities-focused MPD term with the identities-focused DID term.
What this means to me personally. I've always been a fantasizer, day dreamer. Make a suggestion, I can develop a whole story around it. However, I've always been able to distinguish reality from dreaming. Until I went to a therapist who believed in MPD. And eventually she had me believing it too. Alters (other personalities) with names. And I must have this because I must have been abused and if I worked hard enough, I would recovery my memories. If my alters were not forthcoming - or I couldn't remember enough - it was because I wasn't try hard enough and didn't I want to get better. I saw her for almost ten years, getting sicker, depressed, anxious and horribly confused. I cut off contact with my father for five years. Fortunately for me, I moved. It has taken six years to fully realize how much I had been manipulated - intentionally or not.
Therefore, when someone starts talking Sybil I want to send up all kinds of red flags. If you want to read more, I will send y o some links. I lost 7 years of my life, lost my job, saw my dad just before he died, and not sure that my siblings have really or will really forgive me. I'm not sure sometimes how to forgive myself.
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